Patrick Bateman
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The vast majority, 80%+ were raised in racist families. It will take a few more generations to break loose from the learned hatred.
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Most white people are racist, right? (1 Viewer)
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Koya
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James Daulton
Footballguy
What if we have black friends?
johnnycakes
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Patrick Bateman
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johnnycakes
Footballguy
Could be... I don't have any black friends, no Mexican friends, no PR friends, no Italian friends... the handful of friends I have are all WASPs. Next thing you know, I'lll be running guns to the IRA a la Whitey Bulger.
Patrick Bateman
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Let's leave religion out of this.
Mr. Know-It-All
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Never really thought of myself as racist, but there are certain areas where I avoid which are populated primarily by minorities...but the reason I avoid them is due to gang related homicides. Does that make me racist? Gangist? Both? I am also uncomfortable around white meth-heads, hillbillies, and biker gangs. Come to think of it I really don't like people in general. Maybe I am not racist, I am just a misanthrope.
johnnycakes
Footballguy
Interestingly, I get along with the bikers and the white supremacists quite well. I grew up in that kind of environment, so it's not foreign to me. Not so much with the meth-heads and hillbillies. And with other minorities, as previously noted, I'm very willing to give them a chance to prove their worth to me.
ILUVBEER99
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based on percentages whites are the less racist than blacks.
the % of blacks racist against whites is far higher than the other way. I can't blame them as whitey has suppressed them for so long, but it's true.
if i was black i would hate whitey too.
the % of blacks racist against whites is far higher than the other way. I can't blame them as whitey has suppressed them for so long, but it's true.
if i was black i would hate whitey too.
Patrick Bateman
Footballguy
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
Sorry my friend, but I'm really going to be hit and miss on this until mid next week.
I think that a lot of us (me included) were raised in environment (times and places, etc.) where it was almost impossible to escape having our first instincts set to see those of different races in strange places as "those people" rather than "just people like me". And it takes a second or two for our conscious thoughts to push those subconscious thoughts to the side. If having those kinds of racists thoughts pop in your head at all is racists than I think you were guilty of being a racists, but I think it is more important that you were able to recognize and get pass these first instincts based on stereotypes and prejudice and see that the people were ultimately just people.
To me a racists are those that come away from your situation seeing people that were still less somehow than themselves. Were still "those people". But that still doesn't mean white hood, cross burning, banana or Oreo tossing ugliness that gets tied into the word such that we make racism so horrible that nothing can really qualify.
Does this make any sense at all?
SaintsInDome2006
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See race and racism are moving goal posts.
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Juxtatarot
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Fennis
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Fennis
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seahawk 17
Footballguy
Some of my greatest nights happen to be when I some how ended up drinking with a biker gang.
cstu
Footballguy
People ARE different. Thinking that doesn't make a person racist. Nor is not liking the behavior of a subset of a group. If it was then I'd be racist against every race.
Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
Where did I say recognizing differences is the issue? Racism would be projecting the negative behavior of that subset onto the entire racial group in order to justify thinking that race inferior to others..
johnnycakes
Footballguy
When I was drinking, there was a big-time biker bar right in my hometown, and I was a regular. Learned to love the stuffed cherry peppers as a meal. And God help you if you rode up in a rice-burner there. These days, I doubt a place like that could even stay in business. They churned out drunken drivers like a factory back then. And there was exactly one black guy who was allowed in... and he was a statie. I can still picture him saying, "if you want to play, you gotta pay."
pizzatyme
Footballguy
I once drove from Indy to Chicago. Along the way I picked up a guy who was hitchhiking. He had bad BO but seemed okay. Until he started talking to me about his idea of producing a workout video called 6 minute abs.
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
But they weren't stealing a bike. They were actors for a TV show. (Besides, I think the people may have thought the white "thieves" were being sarcastic. They weren't very good actors.)
johnnycakes
Footballguy
I just don't get it... why in the world would anyone want to steal a bicycle? I know they do. I just don't get it. Now, the guy down the street from me... he has a custom-made chopper motorcycle that he keeps chained through the wheel in his garage. We go to sleep with our garage doors open half the time... low-crime neighborhood... but I can totally understand why someone might want to steal his chopper. Hell, he probably looks at me with the whale eye thinking I'd be the one to steal it. So I totally get that. But a bicycle? wtf?
This was an interesting experiment.
In Written in Black and White, selected law firm partners were asked to evaluate a single research memo into which 22 different errors were deliberately inserted – 7 spelling/grammar errors, 6 substantive writing errors, 5 errors in fact, and 4 analytic errors. Half of the partner evaluators were told that the hypothetical associate author was African American and half were told that the author was Caucasian.
Sadly, you know what’s coming.
On a five point scale, reviews for the exact same memo averaged a 3.2 for the “African American” author and 4.1 for the “Caucasian” author. More surprising were the findings of “objective” criteria such as spelling. The partner evaluators found an average of 2.9 spelling and grammar errors for the “Caucasian” authors and 5.8 such errors for the “African American” authors. Overall the memo presumed to have been written by a “Caucasian” was “evaluated to be better in regards to the analysis of facts and had substantively fewer critical comments.”
In Written in Black and White, selected law firm partners were asked to evaluate a single research memo into which 22 different errors were deliberately inserted – 7 spelling/grammar errors, 6 substantive writing errors, 5 errors in fact, and 4 analytic errors. Half of the partner evaluators were told that the hypothetical associate author was African American and half were told that the author was Caucasian.
Sadly, you know what’s coming.
On a five point scale, reviews for the exact same memo averaged a 3.2 for the “African American” author and 4.1 for the “Caucasian” author. More surprising were the findings of “objective” criteria such as spelling. The partner evaluators found an average of 2.9 spelling and grammar errors for the “Caucasian” authors and 5.8 such errors for the “African American” authors. Overall the memo presumed to have been written by a “Caucasian” was “evaluated to be better in regards to the analysis of facts and had substantively fewer critical comments.”
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JohnnyU
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I think there are just as many black people who are just as racist / prejudice as white people, maybe more so. f I pull up to a Kwik Trip and see a dangerous group of skin head white guys, I'm just as likely to drive to the next one as I am if they were a group of suspicious looking black guys. That doesn't make me racist, it makes me smart.
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